Who in the White House? Does that idiot Brandon have his finger on the Big Red Button?
I can’t think of one person in this administration that I’d trust to formulate plans to have a US proxie attack a nuclear power on our behalf. Mark my words, this will not end well.
As an update, saw this at 5 central this evening:
One of the more challenging realities of growing old is the loss of reasoning skills, another is impatience. Coupled together, in world that is more and more digital, it’s easy to see how folk fall prey to online scams. Here (2 screenshots of the same email) is something that popped up in my garry@thomaswispered.com mailbox.
My first thought was, of course: well shit, what a way to begin a Sunday. I pay good money to protect my site from hijackers and one got through that firewall. Then my rational mind returned and I saw the several clues indicative of a phishing attack:
–‘Dear User’ instead of my name
–[Your Company Name] in the signature block
–The ‘Support Team’ in the signature block.
–The header says Bluehost.com (which is correct) followed by @rewalkjapan.com. Here is an enlarged screenshot of the message header
Here is what the search engine returns when I look up www.rewalkjapan.com:
Finally, I remembered to remember that all of the correspondence I have with service providers is through a different email account (other than Thomas account). So I was being phished. Not a big deal when you catch it; a real friggin pain if you don’t.
It occurred to me that I, at 70, am facing the same demons that Old Slow Joe is battling; cognitive decline. The difference between his demons and those that will (providing God extends my years) appear on my doorstep is that I’m now aware there are actually 2 problems. Which is to say that I may not always be aware of that there are 2 problems.
The first problem is a decline in cognitive skills and the second is recognition of the decline in cognitive skills. Old Joe has pushed through the ‘sweet spot’ of cognitive decline (where there is a problem and is aware of it) and arrived in a mental wilderness where he has cognitive problems he is unaware of.
Not to push a point but the last person in this country that should be making decisions on Joe ‘staying in the race’ is Joe. We are quite literally in 25th Amendment territory and at an inflection point in the future of mankind.
Given that there are 197 days until Inauguration Day 2025 and our enemies are nipping at our heels, a pressing question comes to the fore: Are there no patriots left in the marbled halls of our nations capital capable of doing what the constitution demands?
OBTW, here is a little something that the thoughtful folk over at FEMA have contributed to the conversation.
Keep your heads down and powder dry.
The only reason Old Joe has not been subjected to the 25th Amendment and is still the presumptive D nominee is folk can’t figure out how to escape from that prison of their own making: Kamala. They are in a terrible bind.
The RNC is exploiting her go-to lines. Lines she has repeated in 62 separate speeches.
Unless something unfortunate happens to the silver tongued one and she becomes unavailable, the best play for the D’s would be to put on a good show, stay emotionally detached, and get an early start on the 2028 go-round.
I’ll bet the butt holes on her Secret Service detail are puckered so tight that when they stand up, the chairs come up with them.
As far as Biden and his adamant stance, his 100 percent in it to win it posture; does anyone expect him to say anything other than that? Imaging the chaos if he were to say: ‘I’m 85 percent in’ or ‘I need a nap need time to think’. All hell would break loose among the D and the D donors.
What the smart money knows is that Biden is toast and he and the D’s are buying time to do what needs to be done to replace him. He is 100 percent in until he isn’t. My bet is that ‘he isn’t’ once they solve the Kamala problem. Barring that, he’s out once the deep state figures out a path forward.
The leaders within allied nations around the globe will certainly be busy in the coming days and weeks. It seems that the relatively peaceful world they’ve become accustomed to now teeters itself on the cliffs of chaos.
What The Fuck (spelled out because WTF is not sufficiently exasperating) was the President’s campaign (and the presidential administration) thinking when they trotted this senile old man out in front of the world? The level of incompetence within the deep state is staggering and the comfort that came from knowing that Old Joe wasn’t really calling the shots is no longer comforting.
The bad guys are probably hurrying to their own huddle. I regret to inform that no good will come from their new found confidence, a confidence born from the emperor’s nakedness. Born from the realization of how utterly incompetent the American deep state has become.
Consider the words of The Great Communicator. . . .
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”
. . . and then replace this sock puppet and his vice-sock puppet post haste. ‘A thousand years of darkness’ is a long, long time.
CNN must be expecting some pretty dumb folk to tune into the debates this evening. Why else would they feel the need to explain how a person sounds (actually doesn’t sound) when their mic is turned off?
With all of these rules staged to protect less cognitively endowed it makes you wonder what post debate propaganda imagery will be generated.
One thing is absolutely certain: putting Slow Joe on the world stage for an extended period is a national security risk. The worse he does the more emboldened our enemies become.
How the fuck did we end up in such a sticky mess?
Same game, different day.
The no shit line of the day? ‘Both countries face growing confrontation with the West’.
The oh shit line of the day? ‘A pledge of mutual defense if either is attacked’.
No shit: we are just shy of WWIII over Ukraine
Oh shit: Ukraine is currently attacking Russia and North Korea has pledged ‘mutual defense’.
No Shit, Oh Shit, and Bullshit: Now the ‘No Shit’ and ‘Oh Shit’ elements of this article are concerning and I don’t want to diminish their import, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the ‘Bullshit’ portion found just a little further on in the piece. It reads:
For the first paragraph in the narrative to be true, then the second would have to be false (and vise versa). The relationship building narrative (bullshit) cannot be the purpose of the visit as North Korea is already (2nd para: had been providing) so cash/energy strapped they would sell every single production item they had. Russia on the other hand has an excess of both cash (albeit rubles) and energy.
Now for absolute proof my ‘Bullshit’ contention: “six senior US officials” . Probably a subset of the same folk that weighed in on Hunter Biden’s lap top.
The world is a dangerous place and I’m sorry to report that the actions of our nation have done little to tamp down on the tyranny that threatens us all. Let’s go Brandon doesn’t seem to quite cover it.
Perhaps The Babylon Bee said it best: First bomb…!
Well, it’s not like the whole world is watching, right? I mean it’s not like all of the nefarious state actors out their would take a gander at the geezer and think: ‘time to take our shot’, right?
Is it me or is Slow Joe voicing the same failed ceasefire proposition that has been repeatedly visited upon Israel for the last 40 years or so. The bad guys snatch hostages and then demand a cessation of hostilities and uneven trade of prisoners for innocent women/children. Rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
This time, if we are to believe the Slow One, it’s different because it’s a ‘Three Phase Plan’. My ass, it’s the same shit on a different day. But what the hell, someone has propped him up to look like a world leader thru the first Tuesday in November. That’s all that matters anyway, right?
While most folk were watching the clown show in New York someone quietly moved us a little closer to a shooting war with a nuclear armed adversary.
Via The New York Times: “President Biden, in a major shift pressed by his advisers and key allies, has authorized Ukraine to conduct limited strikes inside Russia with American-made weapons, opening what could well be a new chapter in the war for Ukraine, U.S. officials said on Thursday.”
“Mr. Biden’s decision appears to mark the first time that an American president has allowed limited military responses on artillery, missile bases and command centers inside the borders of a nuclear-armed adversary.”
I feel so much more secure knowing that Slow Joe and a cast of his minions are prosecuting a war on the Russian homeland. It’s not like they’ll retaliate in any way.
Just great. Every time this bozo opens his pie hole he embarrasses the entire friggin nation.
Four more years?
There are 10 major environmental rules that Biden just pushed out the door.. Four of these will significantly contribute to the draining of your financial reserves. the other six are just going to make life difficult. They are:
1. Shifting to Electric Cars
The rule does not ban sales of gasoline-powered cars or mandate sales of all-electric vehicles, but by 2032 more than half the new cars sold in the United States would be zero-emissions vehicles, up from just 7.6% last year.
2.Slashing Power Plant Pollution
Requires existing coal plants reduce 90% of greenhouse pollution by 2039 and requires new natural gas power plants to reduce their emissions 90% by 2032.
3.Plugging Methane Leaks
Requires oil and gas producers to detect and fix leaks of methane that wafts into the atmosphere from pipelines, drill sites and storage facilities.
4.Raising the Price to Drill on Public Lands: Raises royalty rates and increases more than tenfold the amount of the bonds that companies must secure before they start drilling.
Other actions guaranteed to jack up prices and steal pennies from widows include:
5.Banning Asbestos: Bans chrysotile asbestos, the only type of asbestos still used in the United States,. The mineral is used in roofing materials, textiles and cement as well as gaskets, clutches, brake pads and other automotive parts.
6.Ending ‘Forever’ Chemicals in Tap Water: Requires municipal water systems to remove six synthetic chemicals currently present in the tap water of hundreds of millions of Americans. The new rule require that the public be notified if levels exceed a standard of 4 parts per trillion for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl. Not 4 PP million. No, not 4 PP billion. We’re talking 4 parts per 1,000,000,000,000 .
7.Protecting Endangered Species: Protecting them from you, not from them. Gives federal officials more leeway to protect species in a ‘changing climate’, bring back protections for animals that are classified as “threatened” and clarifies whether to list a species must be made without considering economic factors.
8.Protecting the Alaskan Wilderness. Deep sixes a proposed 211-mile industrial road to a $7.5 billion copper deposit.
9.Chemical Plant Safety. Requires 12,000 chemical plants and other industrial sites nationwide that handle hazardous materials to explicitly plan for and invest in safety measures against disasters. (We knew this was delayed until members of the deep-state were able to acquire sufficient stock in said firms that produce ‘safety measures’.)
10.Permitting for Highways, Power Lines and Pipelines. Speeds up federal construction permits for clean energy projects while slowing down everyone else. Requires the feds to more heavily weigh damaging effects on the climate and on low-income communities before approving projects like highways and oil wells.
White house spokes-creature ended with an upbeat proclamation:
“The beating will continue until morale improves.”
What a sad, sad nation we become when the questions asked and the answers given are designed to conceal rather than reveal. There is so much propaganda embedded this clip it boggles the mind.
Let your eyes settle on the big red banner across the bottom of the clip. We didn’t respond. When we tell’ Iran not to attack Israel and then they do so anyway, the reporter calls it a win for the President because Israel has not (yet) responded. BTW, when they say that Israel has not ‘responded’ they purposely confuse the meaning of that word with the actions taken by the US (the word ‘response’ in the red banner). If they mean the the US is responding by using words (as the banner implies) then why are Israel’s words not a response as well?
When Iran attacks Israel and the question presented to the administrations slime-ball mouthpiece is about containing Israel (viewed as a win for the admin) rather than not being able to contain an Iranian attack on our ‘ally’ (viewed as a failure for the admin), you know the fix is in. The first question asked is how effective the President has been on dissuading Israel from attacking Iran. It should have been why was the President so ineffective at dissuading Iran from attacking Israel.
The idea that the US has sent a message to the world and strengthened security in the region by our actions (beginning at the 1:18 mark) is an obvious falling away of reality. But then again, your reality is not for you to form on your own.: the US government insists on participating in that endeavor.
With rare exception every time I hear a politician, or their mouthpiece (including their many mouthpieces in the press), use the word ‘bipartisan’ I know that we are being fed a line of crap. Kirby begins using it at about the 3 minute mark.
Up is down, right is wrong, the sky is green, and your an unpatriotic American if you don’t support this administrations balls-to-the-wall run at destroying the nation and setting fire to the world.
The news release by Iran (via tweet) (far below) is designed to stop whatever response the west was going to exhibit. A rational person would give a sigh of relief and say ‘thank God that this did not escalate’.
And then it will happen again, a few more missiles than last time, and then stop. . . no big deal. Then again. And then soon Israel being directly attacked by Iran will become the new normal.
We are being ‘conditioned’ to accept Iran’s direct action against our allies.
I’ve heard it said that the signs of a weakened nation include paradigms where their enemies no longer fear them and their ‘friends’ no longer trust them. It took a while, but we may have finally arrived. Rather than lament the fall of America, I’m going to spend a few moments in quiet contemplation over the ills that have befallen our friend and ally Israel.
Today Israel pulled its negotiators out of hostage talks after Hamas, encouraged by a UN Security Council resolution that calls for an unconditional ceasefire, toughened up its demands during negotiations. The US could have stopped the resolution but elected to roll over and toss this ally to the wolves.
Netanyahu canceled a meeting that the White House had sought with his advisers. He did release a statement however. It reads in part: Israel will not address Hamas’s delusional demands. Israel will pursue and achieve its just war objectives: Destroying Hamas’s military and governmental capacities, release of all the hostages, and ensuring Gaza will not pose a threat to the people of Israel in the future.
The future has just become that much more uncertain.
I heard General Keane on Fox this morning trying to school the Trumpster on the error of his ways. Seems that Trump is going to bring home the folk in Afghanistan by Christmas. Keane kept touting a ‘conditions based withdrawal’. He said that the leverage we have over the Taliban goes away with a unilateral withdrawal. He kept saying that we would not be able to get them to agree to several things that we want if we withdraw.
Here is some late breaking news. When you adhere to a ‘conditions based withdrawal’ scheme it gives the Taliban the ability to control your actions (not the other way around). In other words they would now control when we left because they controlled the conditions. Because they are the aggressors, it also puts them in the position of deciding where/when we had to fight and at what level of intensity. Finally, because we were dumping truck-loads of cash into the country they became more interested in keeping us in the country and collecting the cash than in ending the violence.
I can’t believe that our senior military leaders are so friggin stupid. But then again, they make their bucks by fighting wars not bringing peace.
More than 200 retired generals and admirals endorsed Joe Biden for president in a letter published Thursday, saying he had the character and judgment to serve as commander-in-chief instead of President Donald Trump, who has failed “to meet challenges large or small.”
I’ve only a couple of questions for this august group:
So now you feel it your duty to stab at the back of man who is guiding the nation to recovering from the mess you’ve left. Kiss my ass. And, oh by the way, don’t invoke McCain, Americans can see for themselves what a useless weasel of a man he was.
